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You'll find several good tasting opportunities on the main square.
Le Caveau de
Gigondas
is the best and the busiest, where Sandra and Barbara await your visit with a
large and free selection of tiny bottles for sampling, filled directly from the barrel (daily
10:00-12:00&14:00-18:30,July-Auguntil19:00,closetotheTIonthemaintownsquare,
tel.0490658229,
www.caveaudugigondas.com
)
.Theypridethemselvesonattentiveser-
vice, sobepatient iftheyarewith someone whenyouarrive. Here youcancompare wines
from a variety of private producers in an intimate, low-key surrounding.
You'll find a small grocery store and several eating options in the village. (See
“Sleeping and Eating Near Vaison la Romaine,” next.) To dine very well or sleep nearby,
find the recommended
Hôtel les Florets,
a half-mile above town (restaurant closed Wed,
described later).
• From Gigondas, follow signs to the circular wine village of Sablet—with generally in-
expensive yet tasty wines (the TI and wine
coopérative
share a space in the town cen-
ter)—then past Séguret and back to Vaison la Romaine, where our tour ends.
